Agricultural Census Organization is as attached department of Statistics Division, Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs, Government of Pakistan. The Office of the organization is located at Lahore, Pakistan which manages the function of liaison with the concerned provincial government departments, and planning, supervision of field operations in whole of the country including Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Tribal Areas and Northern areas of Gilgit and Baltistan.

Besides its own staff, the organization borrows field staff on a fairly substantial scale from the various provincial government departments for the massive work of enumeration. The staff so borrowed from Land Revenue, Livestock & Dairy Development and Agriculture Extension Departments are used respectively for Agriculture, Livestock and Agricultural Machinery Censuses. Before utilizing their services the incumbents are trained properly in census concepts and procedures by the officials of census organization. The district administration is also associated invariably in all the field operations. Deputy Commissioners and Officers Incharge of concerned departments at respective districts act as District Census Officers for all the needed field operations in their jurisdiction.

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Organization carries out necessary planning and execution of the censuses/surveys and subsequently processing of all the gathered information. In this process major items of work include:

      1.      Determination of Scope and Formulation of Questionnaires.

      2.      Designing of Sample and Sample Selection.

      3.      Preparation of Census Schedules and Development of Manuals of Instruction. .

      4.      Laying down Census/Survey Methodology.

      5.      Preparation of manuals, training of Census Master Trainer, Field Supervisor and Census Enumerator.

      6.      Manual, Coding and Editing.

      7.      Data Entry

      8.      Computer Edit and Tabulation.

      9.      Quality Control.

    10.      Preparation and Printing of Reports.

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       a)      Decennial Censuses of Agriculture

       b)      Decennial censuses of Livestock

       c)      Decennial censuses of Agricultural Machinery

      d)      Village censuses before each census of Agriculture and Livestock to update sampling frame etc.

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The office of the Agricultural Census Organization is located at Lahore which manages the functions of Census, Liaison and supervision of field operations in whole of the country including Azad Jammu & Kashmir and Northern Areas. The ACO is mainly responsible for conducting decennial censuses of Agriculture and of Livestock. The organization also conducts  a quinquennial Village Census and a decennial Census of Agricultural Machinery. It also undertakes ad-hoc surveys in the field of agriculture on the request of other government departments. Agricultural Census Act, (XLI) 1958 provides legal cover for the Censuses and Surveys.

Agricultural Census Commissioner is the Chief Executive of the Organization. He is assisted by Additional Census Commissioner, Joint Census Commissioners, Deputy Census Commissioners, Senior Statistician, Agri. Economist and Livestock Specialist. For more see Organizational Chart.

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The Census/Survey data are tabulated at district, province and country levels and published in the form of country reports, provincial reports and special reports. These reports include both statistical tables as well as a brief description of census/survey methodology.

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